Archive for: October 12, 2007

Predating the carputer by easily two decades (not counting KITT, of course), that ‘79 Buick Riviera would have clearly elevated you to alpha status in your elementary school. Featuring what appears to be a Sears Atari 2600 clone and a 13-inch CRT with a custom fake-ice RIVIERA logo, there’s no w…

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Gaming, Transporation

Continuing its push into greener computing, IBM nowadays announced the launch of its so-called “Mainframe Gas Gauge,” which promises to let its server customers monitor their exact energy consumption in real instance. What’s increasingly, IBM plus announced that it’ll start publishing typical en…

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Desktops

In today’s episode of “no surprises here,” we look at a recent study published by Piper Jaffray & Company which attempts to take an intimate look inside the minds of high schoolers across the US. As you’d probably expect, none of the results were all that shocking. When asked about MP3 playe…

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Gadgets, Portable Audio, Portable Video

Filed under: Cellphones, Handhelds
that here supposed AT&T stock sheet that fell into our laps nowadays reads like an indecisive ability user’s wish list — the Prada’s great, the Z9’s okay whether you’re into that sort of thing, and the K850a finally moves AT&T into high-end camera territor…

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Gadgets

For those who just can’t call it quits, a team of researchers at Tufts University has developed a head adornment which can determine when you’ve been overly stressed, bored or simply numb to the world around you when using your computer. The crew is studying functional near-infrared spectroscopy…

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Wearables

Filed under: Features, Handhelds
Look, the new Sony Reader PRS-505 isn’t perfect — it’s only the first device among the moment generation of e-ink based eBook readers. But it really does remind us of the early MP3 players back in the late 90s: possibly the substance isn’t as readily accessible as w…

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Gadgets

Business Week is reporting that Universal, together with Sony BMG and possibly Warner Music (together representing about 75% of all music sold within the U.S.) are prepping their own music store to compete with iTunes.

It sounds great, until you dig into the (what BizWeek says) are the details: a $5/month subscription, paid for by player manufacturers and cell-phone carriers. Sounds great, no? Well, maybe.

First and foremost, when has any cost ever been totally eaten by a service provider? Sprint, Verizon and AT&T stockholders aren't going to accept decreased profits just because a music provider has an interesting e-commerce concept. That cost is going to be passed along to you, somehow.

And do you think that that $5 will allow the subscription across any device? I don't. You'll pay $5 per MP3 player, another $5 per cellphone (with its crappy speakers) and another $5 for your living device. Possibly another $5 for your car, too.

Secondly, hasn't anyone figured out that consumers actually want to own their music? We don't want to jump through hoops dealing with DRM, we don't want to rent a catalog of music. We simply want to download a song, archive it, and play it back via whatever medium we want, when we want. That's it. End of story.

That's why iTunes is the premier online music store in the world (as it allows users to own) and why sources like AllofMP3.com thrived (because it stripped music of DRM).

Universal's own efforts to sell DRM-less music are a bold step in the right direction, but we have devices that allow us to listen to music. They're called radios. When we hear a song ...

Details are admittedly scant on that one, but after Don Eklund, executive VP of advanced technologies for Sony Pictures domestic Entertainment, got done praising the growth of high-definition movies at HDTV DisplaySearch, he additionally mentioned that the PlayStation 3 was due a firmware update…

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HDTV, Home Entertainment

We’ll be announcing the release of another iPhone hack nowadays, created by a dev team consisting of Nicholas “Drudge” Penree, NerveGas (the developer behind NES.app), and Pumpkin. that patch will enable you to add 3rd-party apps to your phone’s Springboard.Before you decide to decide to upload that…

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Apple

Filed under: Announcements, Features
First off, we want to express both our gratitude for and amazement at the overwhelming reaction to our DonorsChoose.org charity drive so far; we’re humbled that so many of you have chosen to give back to our public schools by providing crucial technology to child…

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Gadgets

Filed under: Cellphones, Handhelds
whether you had any doubts about Microsoft’s ability to innovate in the mobile user interface agency, here’s a new patent application to mull by. Titled “Extensible Filtered Lists for Mobile Device User Interface,” the documentation spells out details for improving…

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Gadgets

Two companies have hit Linux makers Red Hat and Novell with a patent infringement lawsuit alleging their products use technology first patented increasingly than a decade ago. IP Innovation and Technology Licensing filed the suit on Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Texas, a popular jurisdic…

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